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Iraq: Suicide bomber attack kills 12 people north of Kut province – Video
Iraq: Suicide bomber attack kills 12 people north of Kut province
Subscribe to ITN News: http://bit.ly/1bmWO8h At least 12 people have been killed and 26 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint ...
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Iraq: Suicide bomber attack kills 12 people north of Kut province - Video
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April 22, 2014
Security forces remove a damaged car and other debris at the site of a suicide attack at a checkpoint north of Kut province yesterday. Reuters pic, April 22, 2014.Attacks including five suicide bombings hit various areas of Iraq yesterday, killing at least 26 people as parliamentary elections loom next week, the first since American troops departed.
Iraq is suffering a protracted surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 2,750 people so far this year, and the UN envoy warned yesterday that militants were seeking to stoke sectarian tensions between the Shiite Muslim majority and the Sunni Arab minority.
In the deadliest attack, a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives at a police checkpoint in the Suweirah area, south of Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding 35, a police officer and a medical source said.
Another suicide bomber blew up a vehicle at a checkpoint in Madain, killing at least two people and wounding five, while gunmen shot dead one person and wounded at least one other in Latifiyah, officials said.
In the Sadr City area of north Baghdad, a car bomb in an area of shops killed five people and wounded at least 12. A car bomb in the Shaab area killed at least two people and wounded at least nine.
A suicide bomber also struck a commercial street in the central Karrada district, killing three people and wounding at least 14, while two more suicide bombings in cities north of Baghdad left one person wounded.
Iraqi soldiers and police deployed in force on the street in Karrada that was hit by the blast, which shattered nearby shop windows.
At the site of the explosion, security forces examined a charred piece of what appeared to be human remains, as shop workers and other bystanders looked on.
The attacks came a day after violence in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at Baghdad's Imam Kadhim University, killed at least 16 people.
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Iraq attacks kill 23 as election looms
Iraqis gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion at a checkpoint in the Suweirah area, 45 kms south of Baghdad, on April 21, 2014
Iraq is going through a protracted surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 2,750 people so far this year and the UN envoy warned on Monday that militants were seeking to stoke sectarian tensions between the Shiite Muslim majority and the Sunni Arab minority.
In the deadliest attack, a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives at a police checkpoint in the Suweirah area, south of Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding 35, a police officer and a medical source said.
Another suicide bomber blew up a vehicle at a checkpoint in Madain, killing at least two people and wounding five, while gunmen shot dead one person and wounded at least one other in Latifiyah, officials said.
In the Sadr City area of north Baghdad, a car bomb in an area of shops killed five people and wounded at least 12. A car bomb in the Shaab area killed at least two people and wounded at least nine.
The attacks came a day after violence in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at Baghdad's Imam Kadhim University, killed at least 16 people.
UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov condemned the attack on the university, which is run by the Shiite religious endowment, as an attempt to stoke sectarianism.
"This is yet another example of sectarian-based violence that the people of this country need to fight in order to bring this country to tranquility, and it is happening at a time when the Iraqi people are preparing to go to the polls in a few days," Mladenov said.
"The target has been selected to incite sectarian hatred."
The April 30 vote is Iraq's first parliamentary election since US forces withdrew in 2011 and is a major test for the security forces.
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Bombings, other attacks kill 33 in Iraq
BAGHDAD Suicide bombings and other attacks across Iraq killed at least 33 people and wounded nearly 80 more on Monday, officials said, the latest in an uptick in violence as the country counts down to crucial parliament elections later this month.
Over the past year, violence has surged in Iraq to levels unseen since 2008. The increase in deadly shootings and bombings has become the Shiite-led governments most serious challenge as the nation prepares to head to the polls on April 30 the first vote in Iraq since the U.S. military withdrawal in 2011.
Mondays deadliest attack took place south of Baghdad in the town of Suwayrah, where a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police checkpoint, killing 12 people five policemen and seven civilians. A police officer said 19 people were wounded in the attack.
In the nearby town of Madain, about 14 miles southeast of Baghdad, another suicide car bomber struck an army checkpoint, killing three soldiers and two civilians, a second police officer said. Twelve other people were wounded, he said.
An Iraqi soldier was killed and three were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their patrol in the northern town of Mishahda, 20 miles north of Baghdad, a police officer said. And in the town of Latifiyah, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, gunmen in a speeding car went on a shooting spree, killing one civilian and wounding two, a police officer said.
Monday evening, four more bombs struck various parts of Baghdad, killing at least 14 people and wounding 40, police said.
Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Mondays carnage came a day after violence killed at least 18 people and wounded nearly 50 across the country.
Those attacks included a coordinated assault on a private Shiite college in Baghdad in which a suicide bomber with an explosives belt attacked the facilitys main gate while three militants attacked the back gate. Four policemen and one teacher were killed and 18 other people were wounded.
According to the United Nations, 8,868 people were killed in Iraq last year the countrys highest death toll since a peak of sectarian bloodletting in 2007.
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